Water-elevator



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet'l. H. DICKINSON.

WATER ELEVATOR.

No. 255,946. Patented Apr. 4,1882.

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' H. DICKINSON. 'WATER ELEVATOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY DICKINSON, OF LOWELL, ASSIGNOR TO LUOIUS G WARNER, OF

GROWN POINT, INDIANA.

WATER-ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,946, dated April 4, 1882. Application filed October 28,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY DICKINSON, of Lowell, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Elevators, which are set forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in whict1 Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a water-elevator broken away to show my improvements; Fig. 2, a detail section of the elevator-casing, on an enlarged scale, showing my improvements in side elevation; Fig.3, a crosssection of the same, taken on the line at w of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a plan section of the same, taken on the line g 'y of Fig. 2.

My invention relates to the means employed in water-elevators for discharging water.

My invention consists of a peculiar spout and receiver combined.

hi the drawings, A represents a water-elevator house with my improvements attached.

B is the sheet-metal receiver, into which the water is discharged from the water-elevating apparatus. v

G is the cast-metal spout, provided with the usual lug for holding a water-pail. The upper end of the spout incloses the lower end of the receiver. Two opposite sides, b b, of the funnel or complete part B of the receiver approach each other uniformly throughout the length of the funnel Bthat is, the funnel B, as to these two sides at least, tapers uniformly throughout its length. The object of this uniform tapering, as well as'of the telescope-joint between the spout and receiver, is to dispense with an unnecessary number of joints to be soldered, while at the same time a receiver is made which has no ledges on which water may lodge and freeze, and whichconnects with the spout without the formation of any such ledge; and the object of making the receiver separate from the spout is to save the expense of making the whole discharge-passage of cast metal. If the sides I; b were to approach each other faster, for example, in their lower halves than in their upper halves, it will be obvious that all four corners of the funnel would require soldering, whereas by my construction some of these corners of the funnel can be made by a simple angle or bend in the sheet metal.

D is a lug, which, with the inside part of the spout adjacent to the elevator-casing a, (which part I term e,)'holds up the nozzle of the spout. E is a screw inserted into the casing a through the upper edge of the part c, to hold the spout against any tendency to motion in the opposite direction. The receiverB is hung on the casing a by screws, or in any suitable manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a water-elevator, the casin g a, cast spout G, and uniibrmly-tapering sheet-metal receiverfunnel B, all combined and operating substantially as set forth.

HENRY DICKINSON.

Witnesses:

J. R. DAVIS, F. BOWE. 

